Category Archive: 1320 Spotlight, Apex Spotlight, Project Cars, TECH, Videos, XL Spotlight
Project Binky Is Getting A Hauler! Meet Project Escargo… It Ain’t Pretty And It Never Will Be. But It Should Do Some Hauling.
Unique car haulers are cool. We’ve all seen and admired them at one point or another, but many of them have not just been built on a whim, but rather out of necessity. That necessity could be...
Introducing Project Power Laggin’: a 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon For Weekend Workhorse Duty!!
BangShift has a new project vehicle: Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside...
Money No Object: 1993 TVR Chimaera 400 – That Other Gran Turismo-Based Dream Machine
The 1997 Playstation racing game Gran Turismo is often credited with the explosion of knowledge and desire for Japanese Domestic Market vehicles in the United States. It’s true…the...
American Horror Story: What Does A Long-Flooded Pontiac’s Engine Look Like Inside?
Winter in Iowa means that pretty much nothing gets done…or, at least, that’s what Kevin from Junkyard Digs has been telling me for the last few months. Hey, I don’t blame...
Rousing The Dead: After 24 Years Quiet, This 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Will Wake Up!
It probably seems like I’m stuck on revival videos…and I am, for good reason: inspiration. When your project car has spent five of seven years dead, sooner or later you start to lose hope...
Unhinged: The Thrown Wrench Garage Is Open For Business!
Spring has come to BangShift Mid-West. The trees have buds on them, the early flowers have started to bloom all over the place, the roses in the backyard are starting to leaf out and for the love of...
The Dirty Cougar: The Final Installment Of Our $400 Revival Racer!
Three months ago, sick with a head cold, hating the automotive sickness like none other, I was laying in a muddy alleyway in Evansville, Indiana, wrenching, fighting, and cursing a 1987 Mercury...
The $1,000 Z-Car: The Straight-Six Story Is One Of Sadness
The first installment of the story of a cheap Craigslist-sourced Datsun 280Z was foreboding, to put it mildly. Nevermind the usual issues that come with an S30 that hasn’t been kept up, the...
Project Hell: This $1000 Datsun 280Z Shows That You Get What You Paid For
In the list of cars I’ve dealt with so far in life, a disproportionate amount of vehicles fall under the $1,000 and under class. At least fifteen of them, to be honest. And out of those...
Rotary Kei Truck Project: Work Continues On The Suzuki Carry Build!
If you’ve ever seen a kei truck in person, you are probably like me in one sense: you looked at it and wondered how fast it truly is. These tiny trucks are a staple in Japan where they fit...
The Fiero Revival: Detail Fixes On The 1985 Fiero That Hadn’t Moved In Twenty Years
As a first-timer who is taking on their first project vehicle, it is undoubtedly a scary proposition to learn that a major component of the project car that you are taking on doesn’t work. If...
The RWD Coyote Fusion: Cagework And Reassembly Continue For The Drift Machine
One of the wilder builds we’re following is Matt Soppa’s 2016 Ford Fusion. Yeah, Fusion…you know, the four-door sedan that Ford claims they can’t sell if they were giving them...
The SRT-4 Powered MG Midget: Suspension Design And Engine Mockup
We’ve been following a couple of deep-work builds, like the Mongrel and Project Binky. We love that people are using YouTube to kind of document their work…you might not see every single...
